Performance Quotes


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Hmm, maybe instead of jumping off the drum riser you could just step carefully down off of it but make a crazy I`m-going-off-really-hard face while you`re doing it so people think you`re doing some insane stage move.

- Jade Puget

Tell him to come check me out when I`m shredding some sweet finger tapping solos and then he`ll be like, ‘Power chords blah blah blah.’ And I`ll hit the whammy bar and it`ll sound like a plane crashing at an air show and then he`ll try to say some other stuff like, ‘Blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda.’ And that`s when I fire up the wah-wah pedal and it`ll be like ‘Wokka wokka wokka wo-wokka wokka.’ All up in his freakin` face.

- Jade Puget

In Boise on the Rancid, tour I went to run up the wall and jump off it but my foot went straight through instead and my leg was buried in the wall up to my knee. I tried to play a blazing solo to take people’s minds off it but I don’t think it worked...

- Jade Puget

I pray and then visualize my stellar performance and go through it silently and visually. I get pumped and jump around/stretch.

- Jason Castro

The freshest in my mind is Hollywood Week final day: my song was a disaster.

- Jason Castro

I like to feel the burn of the audience`s eyes when I`m whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone

- Conor Oberst

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.

- Aristotle

The thing about performance, even if it`s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

- Sydney Smith

Let your performance do the thinking.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

- Harold S. Geneen

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.

- Harold S. Geneen

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.

- Harold S. Geneen

Don`t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

- Ralph Marston

(on his two biggest performances so far) They were both fun. I think probably Stormbreaker pipped it a tiny bit because it was a lot more effort and I got quite a bit more reward. You get to see what your fans really think about you and how the film`s going to do - at the premiere.

- Alex Pettyfer

"At first, I wasn`t sure if I would be able to pull it through. But with my determination to do well in the play, I just considered it a challenge. I found it to be very difficult especially since I didn`t know where to get the motivation because I have yet to meet in person a child who was a victim of molestation. I only got to know about real-life situations like that on TV and reading about it in the papers. But the hardest was playing the father because I was just there sitting down and yet I had to act and look really vicious." - Interviewed about his significant 3-role performance in the 2004 musical revue "Penis Talks."

- Luis Alandy

"We don`t measure the blood we`ve drawn anymore We just stack the bodies outside the door"

- Andy Sixx